14 DAY TRIAL // A lot have been made of the legal battle between Interplay and Bethesda linked to the fights for a Fallout Online MMO. Bethesda has bought the rights to the well-known post apocalyptic game universe and has already launched one very good role playing game, Fallout 3, and a host of downloadable content for it. But Interplay still has the rights to create and publish a MMO, which has been known for some time as Project V13, as long as it can prove that it has secured the necessary resources and meets some development milestones.
A short while ago, Interplay announced a new website for their project and began accepting registrations for a new newsletter that would offer details on the back story of the game universe it was creating.
The first of them has arrived, with the attached screenshot and with a short fragment detailing the search for an abandoned mine and the dangers that a traveler might bump into on their way there, from Radscorpions to Ghouls to raiders. The newsletter is very appealing but Interplay needs to go beyond words and show fans of the universe some gameplay linked with Fallout Universe in order to really get their interest up.
The company is saying that their Fallout Online projects will allow players to “roam the desert wastes, the radiation-blasted mountain tops, and the mutated forests of the post-apocalyptic world - a land where decisions have consequences and there are multiple solutions to every challenge. Players can decide to participate in the rebuilding of this broken land, seek the adrenaline pumping pleasure of conquest and destruction, or just go launch anvils and ride the merry-go-round.”
At the moment, the closest Fallout dose is New Vegas, Obsidian’s spinoff, which takes players to the city of casinos and lights for some new adventures using an old game engine.